He’s known for his tough talk and take-no-prisoners attitude toward budget cutting. But for one school district, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s bark has not matched up to his budget bite.

The Parsippany-Troy Hills school district drew the ire of the Republican governor late last year when it defied his order to rescind Superintendent Lee Seitz’s contract, which exceeded a proposed pay cap for district administrators. Christie repeatedly called Seitz and the school board the poster children for greed and arrogance.

Under Christie’s cap, the 7,250-student district would be limited to paying its superintendent $175,000, plus certain bonuses. The district sued the state over the issue.

On Friday, the governor warned that the district’s superintendent contract, which gives Seitz an average salary of $225,000 over five years, would result in lost state subsidies. ”Lee Seitz might end up costing them a heck of a lot more money than just his salary,” Christie said. “I don’t understand why they think they know better than the Department of Education on this issue.”

But in education-spending figures released Wednesday as part of the governor’s proposed budget, Parsippany would see its state aid more than double — from just over $1 million to $2.3 million.

The increase equals 1% of the district’s 2009-10 budget, consistent with the budget proposal Christie made Tuesday. He said each district would see an increase equal to 1% of the budget for the 2009-10 school year.

“We are recommending that our Board use this additional funding to offset property taxes,” Seitz said in a statement. “We appreciate the governor’s efforts to restore funding to the non-urban districts.”

Rutgers Law professor Paul Tractenberg, who founded the Education Law Center, which fights for school funding in urban districts, told The Star-Ledger he did not think the governor had the authority to trim funding.

“If there is the authority in the state, it doesn’t reside with governor,” he told the newspaper. “I think the governor has this delusion of grandeur that the legal niceties don’t apply to him.”